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Ex Bush Official: Gitmo Prisoners Mostly Innocent
In stateside prisons, it's news if one or two of the inmates are found to be innocent. In Guantanamo Bay, however, the numbers are more like 776 innocent out of 800. Lawrence Wilkerson, the former chief of staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell, wrote this week that only about 2 dozen of the roughly 800 male inmates at Guantanamo are terrorists. The rest are innocent prisoners who may or may not have information useful to the U.S. government. "There are still innocent people there," said Wilkerson, "some have been there six or seven years." Wilkerson says he learned of this through State Department briefings and military commanders.




After this-will someone please tell me why we can't put Bush & co on trial for war crimes?
What your witnessing is a freemason,dictator prison created by a freemason,dictator president .this is all part of the freemason agenda pretty soon regular american would have been thrown in there regular americans are getting arrested under this patriot act he created not terrorist but regular americans who may have committed a crime but are arrested under the patriot act not the normal penal code the arresting officer tells them your being arrestede under the patriot act Which in turn puts them on the terror watch list maybe thats why there's 400 million people on that list. WAKE UP we've been hijacked by the freemason agenda and propaganda system
Ah so the Freemasons did it. They fooled me again. I thought it was the Elders of Zion, in league with the Molly Maguires.
Well, now that we know the truth, those 776 innocents will be resettled in US cities, where they'll become taxi drivers; just don't take a taxi if you're carrying a bottle of wine.
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Hold this leaderless administration accountable.
Need relevant blogs. Not just deflective attention diversionary tactics. Gitmo. WHO CARES? Europe? SO WHAT. Our Nation is in deep crisis and the party hearty in chief is doing leno in hollywood.
Peter0000:
More words of wisdom from a true intellect. The depth of knowledge you have of current events is truly impressive.
*I think you've got that tinfoil wrapped too tightly around your head.
And why is our nation in deep crisis? Could it have been the incompetency of the last administration, with it's fearless leader/liar who repeatedly inserted his foot into his mouth every time he opened it?
Keep believing what you hear on uncle Rush's comedy show.
Democrat, the political jackass
Where's the depth and insightfuly analysis in your pitiful deflection of blame to the Bush years. Think. This is about the current LACK of leadership. All you can come up with is the same old talking point and a simplistic reference to someone named rush who benefits from your listening time and not mine. I sure his advertisers thank you though. Keep listening, You may regain a grasp on reality.
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Rendition, torture, secret assassination rings, illegal wire taps, spying on journalists, lying to enter the US into an unlawful war that resulted in the deaths of over 100k Iraqi men, women and children.... (the list goes on and on...)
And now we are supposed to be surprised that the administration knowingly imprisoned men, without just cause, to anchor their own political ends?
Excuse me if I have grown totally numb with disgust and dissapointment.
If only the media were to stand up and do more to demand that we hold ourselves, and our leaders, responsible for repeatedly breaking international and domestic law-- not the least of which include multiple war crimes.
Unfortunately, these "revelations" will only continue to come to light and sadden us all the more. Just as secrets of the Nixon administration have continued to squeak out over the last 30 years, so will the dramatically darker secrets of the Bush-Cheney years...
Future generations and their social-psycho analysts will have a field day with our muted disgust and inadequate response to the evil that permeated the highest office in the land.
We should all feel shame, because we all share the blame for not doing more to demand justice.
No matter the political slippery slope we fear it may create between future presidential administrations-- we have a moral obligation to future generations else our nation runs the risk of these travesties occurring again.
Viewsonic: If they were terrorists on American soil with plans and actions to kill innocent people, then they are guilty of terrorism. If they were in their homeland defending their way of life and the government that helped guide them into this mess, then they are prisoners of war. Many Germans defended their country, but we didn't try every enemy combatant, just the ones in charge.
The men at Gitmo weren't trying to kill our families. They were trying to kill our soldiers who were in their territory. If you don't understand the difference then you are the one without critical reasoning abilities and look very stupid to the rest of us that understand the difference. It's you that needs to re-evalutate the entire scenario instead of acting like we're clueless as to what is going on. They chant "Death to America" because they have been mislead and brainwashed throughout most of their lives into thinking we are the enemy. Blowback from past events and current wars like Iraq just help to fuel and justify this way of thinking. You probably won't ever get it, but if you do you'll start feeling sick because you have been taken by propaganda just as they have even if it's not nearly as dangerous as their propaganda.
There's no point in addressing Peter 0000 any more. He's dropped off the charts below amoral to the extent that he may be a troll, a plant.
Viewsonic, defending your home is *not* terrorism. Do you think Americans in the Revolutionary War were *terrorists*? GB did. It's all about point of view. Don't believe me? Put down your mouse and get out some history books.
It is very reasonable that the majority of people held at Gitmo and other American Gulags are innocent. Had nothing whatsoever to do with "killing American soldiers", who by the way had invaded their country under the leadership of the Bushies. These prisoners are held without identifying cause for the imprisonment and then we tortured them for answers to questions that they had no idea how to answer. I guess it was just too much trouble to investigate the reasons for holding these men and then charging them accordingly or releasing them. One of my grandsons is still in Iraq with the Army and we get a reasonably honest assessment of what is happening on the ground.
Thank you.
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